It's a franchise. Built for filling the bellies of kids and college students the land over and no more. Much less tasty that Pizza Hut, and sitting under heat lamps for an indeterminate time. Search elsewhere.

You have to watch the action at Cici's in order to figure out what's really going on. I used to pig out about once a month at the one across from Skyline (VA) before the doc said I should watch my cholesterol and thought it was perfect for exactly that - lots of mediocre pizza but not so bad that I wouldnt eat it.

What's under the heat lamps doesn't stay there very long, but unless you ask for something that isn't out but is in the oven, the flow is from the oven to some sort of storage under the serving counter. When they replenish the counter, it's from that under-the-counter storage space. You can ask for something that isn't out and if they don't have it, they'll make it as long as they have the ingredients, but most of the time you don't get anything fresh out of the oven.

I don't suppose that's any worse for freeshness than home-delivery pizza, but then I don't get pizza delivered.